Cezanne Quote by Alfred H. Barr, Jr

“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's…

— Robert Hughes

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as…

— Bob Dylan

If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

— Arshile Gorky

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then…

— David Galenson

The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and…

— Clement Greenberg

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and…

— Roy Lichtenstein

One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My…

— Christopher Willard

The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake…

— Georges Braque

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of…

— Jerry Saltz

The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the…

— Philip Guston

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

— Clive Bell

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

— Bob Dylan